The wise do not classify. The wise do not want to be…

To allow same-sex couples to adopt children and then to label their families as second-class because the adoptive parents are of the same sex…

— Stephen Reinhardt

It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all…

— Franz Boas

A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black,…

— Thomas Sowell

Of course, intersectionality theory is a confused muddle. It fights racism and sexism by classifying everyone according to race and sex. It views race…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

— William James

Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the past. The…

— Russell Jacoby

The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are…

— Carl Linnaeus

Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.

— Johnny Carson

Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

— Annie Jump Cannon

I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in…

— Marshall McLuhan

In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and…

— Ejnar Hertzsprung

Everything is starting to make a little more sense to me now. I love the idea that, first of all when I made the…

— Courtney Jaye

“To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without dueling with…

— Abraham Maslow